Digitized Manuscripts: Faceted Search

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This table searches all collections of Syriac and Garshuni manuscripts that are freely available online by key terms. Click any of the categorized menu items to narrow down your search. If you would like to sort the manuscripts by shelf-mark or date, or search by general keyword, see our other table here, which includes all the same manuscript data.

*The Approximate Date column is derived from the best available information for the manuscript. This is not asserted as a scholarly position on the dating of the manuscript. Instead, it is merely used here for the convenience of being able to sort all manuscripts by numerical date. The user should keep in mind that there may be considerable debate over the precise dating of the manuscript and should consult the manuscript repository and relevant scholarly literature for details.

Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 185 1,703 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' the Solitary, Various works
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha

Vat. sir. 186 1,477 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Gregory bar 'Ebroyo, Songs on divine things, on one who is perfecting his death through tireless labor of knowledge
  • Bar 'Ebroyo, Other poems 
  • Gabriel Qamṣa, Spiritual philosophy
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, 'Onyatha
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, short poems
  • Khamis bar Qardahe, Sogyatha for feasts
  • Rabban Isaac, Songs

Vat. sir. 187 1,669 CE Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • 'Abdisho' of Nisibis, Interpretation of the 'Onyatha of Simeon of Sancalabar
  • Exposition of the obscure places in the Gospels
  • Exposition on certain places in Genesis and Exodus
  • Etymologies of Syriac words
  • A question of Macarius the Solitary and answer of Joshua bar Nun, Patriarch of the Chaldeans
  • Questions and answers from the Scriptures from Theodore of Mopsuestia

Vat. sir. 222 1,670 CE Garshuni, Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Chaldean office for common days, former
  • Chaldean office for common days, latter
  • Hymns
  • Common office for matins
  • Canticles for common days
  • Calendar
  • 'Onyatha 
  • 'Onyatha on the martyrs
  • Song for vespers and matins
  • Hymn of Mar Narsai, Memra for nocturns of a Dominical feast
  • St. Ephrem, acrostic memra with the letters of Jesus' name
  • Mar Narsai, Memra for matins of a Dominical feast
  • Song of the three youths
  • Theodore of Mopsuestia, hymn for matins of feast days
  • Hymn on the Eucharist
  • Elijah the Patriarch, prayer
  • Names of the Arabic months

Syriac 31. Hymns 1,512 CE Syriac

Catalogs:

Contents:

  • Gabriel Qamṣa: Hymn
  • Khamis bar Qardahe: 18 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: 7 hymns 
  • Mara: Hymn
  • Gewargis Warda: 2 hymns 
  • Isḥāq Shbadnāyā: 3 hymns
  • Gewargis Warda: hymns 
  • St. Ephrem: 2 hymns
  • Berik'isus (a.k.a Bar Eskapha): hymn
  • Hymn on the feast of the nativity
  • Rabban Simeon Sanqalbad: hymn
  • Notes on chronology
  • Explacation of certain hymns 
  • Table of hymns and variants for the office
  • Chants (ܣܘܓܝܬܐ) for Sundays and feasts
  • Chant of Narsai
  • On Penitence and on the niece of Mar Abraham of Kidon
  • Hymns on St. Stephen and St. George
  • Chants for various feasts

Irbīl, Chaldean Archdiocese of Irbīl, MS 58 (ACE 00058) 1,770 CE Syriac
  • Hymns for Sundays and Feast Days
    • Includes hymns by ʻAbdīshōʻ bar Brīkā and Israel of Alqosh

Kirkuk, Iraq, Chaldean Archdiocese of Kirkuk 77 (ACK 00077) 1,700 CE Syriac
  • Gewargis Warda, Wardā (Syriac Rite, Eastern)

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